Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu
Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Veggie-Loaded Mapo Tofu Here's a recipe for mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) packed with flavor and nutrition. For those who've never eaten it, mapo tofu is a Sichuan Chinese dish of soft tofu stewed in a spicy bean and chili oil sauce. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a popular Chinese dish that originated in the Sichuan Province. This classic recipe is perfect for spice fiends and typically made with soft cubes of silken tofu sautéed with ground pork, green onions, and Sichuan peppercorns simmered in a spicy and rich black bean sauce.

Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Get Ground pork
  2. Take Silken tofu
  3. Take Onion
  4. Get Carrot
  5. Get Shiitake mushroom
  6. Get Japanese leek
  7. Prepare Ginger
  8. Make ready Sugar
  9. Take Soy sauce
  10. Prepare Chinese soup stock
  11. Get Water
  12. Get Miso
  13. Make ready Salt and pepper
  14. Get Sesame oil
  15. Prepare Katakuriko slurry
  16. Make ready Doubanjiang

The taste of firm tofu is not so tenderer but silken tofu is too easy to break. Combine the shiitake mushrooms and cup of warm water in a mixing bowl. To retain the umami in this vegan mapo tofu, you'll need a good doubanjiang (fermented fava bean paste - this is important!), Sichuan Chili Crisp, fermented black beans and Sichuan pepper (our Tribute Pepper is the finest available on the market anywhere). Mapo tofu should include silken or soft tofu.

Steps to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Chop all the ingredients finely. Discard the hard stems of the shiitake mushrooms. Chop the rest of the mushrooms (including the stems).
  2. Heat sesame oil and fry the ingredients gently.
  3. Add the ground pork. Stir-fry.
  4. When the pork starts to brown, pour in 250~300 ml of water, Chinese soup stock powder, sugar and soy sauce and simmer.
  5. Reduce the sauce by half and add in the tofu. Stir gently without breaking up the tofu.
  6. Reduce the heat to low and add the miso (add the dobanjiang to taste). Simmer gently without boiling. Stir in the katakuriko slurry to thicken. Serve immediately.

To retain the umami in this vegan mapo tofu, you'll need a good doubanjiang (fermented fava bean paste - this is important!), Sichuan Chili Crisp, fermented black beans and Sichuan pepper (our Tribute Pepper is the finest available on the market anywhere). Mapo tofu should include silken or soft tofu. The high water content in these types of tofu means they have the silky, almost custard-like texture that mapo tofu should have. Some recipes out there on the Internet tell you not to use silken tofu, or even to use firm tofu. In our humble opinions, that is just plain wrong.

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